The Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is awarded annually at the GW Research Showcase. CBPR is an approach to research that involves community organizations and/or residents in the research process, with the aim of making a positive, sustainable contribution to the community. We are happy to announce the winners for 2020.
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Welcome to the final day of our first-ever "Virtual Symposium." At this point, nearly 200 people have voted for the Audience Choice Award.
Many thanks to the student presenters and their faculty for sharing their community engagement projects here. Thanks also to the community organizations who partnered with GW students and faculty this year.
In the posts that follow this message, we encourage you to view the student presentations and leave a comment. The Nashman Affiliate Faculty will be reviewing student presentations to select Community Engaged Scholarship Exemplars, as well as recipients of the Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research.
YOU are needed to help select the Symposium Audience Choice Award. Click on this link to cast your vote for best Symposium presentation. Be sure to encourage your friends and colleagues to submit their choice as well.
Note: This blog has a variety of content, so if you have navigated to this post rather than linking to it, you may need to click here to filter all subsequent posts as Symposium presentations.
Got extra free time on your hands and interested in learning more about the relationship of place-based art and civic-engagement?
The Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that runs national service programs such as AmeriCorps, produces a regular webinar series from the Office of Research and Evaluation.
One recent webinar featured four panelists from the National Endowment for the Arts who shared how their research sought to measure and understand the interactions between place-based art, civic-engagement, social cohesion, and other community-level outcomes.
Check out the webinar here. Be sure to keep up with future webinars in the series by checking out this link.
If you are interested in finding others who also focus on community-engagement and the arts, find out how to get involved in the Faculty Learning Community on the topic.
Dr. Amanda Northcross, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, uses her “background in environmental chemistry and engineering” to study and specialize in “the chemical constituents of airborne pollutants and monitory human exposures to air pollution.” Areas of Dr. Northcross’ expertise include but are not limited to Environmental and Occupational Health and Global Environmental Health. ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Amanda Northcross"
Erin Wentzell, assistant clinical professor in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has conducted community engaged research throughout her career. Recently, she has found a way to incorporate service-learning into the coursework she teaches as well, through teaching PT 8481: Interprofessional Community Practicum. We are so proud of the community engaged scholarship of Dr. Wentzell. Check out more of their work at this link. Learn more about how Nashman supports community engaged faculty here. Want more information on getting your Community Engaged Scholarship course designated click here. Click here for more information on the work of PT 8481
Students who are registering for online summer courses and are interested in Community Based Participatory Research should click here to learn more about Dr. Taggart’s course. ...continue reading "Summer Course in Community Based Participatory Research"
Hiromi Ishizawa, assistant professor of Sociology in the Columbian College of Arts and Science has continuously engaged with the community in her work. Recently, she published her work, “Civic Particiaption through Volunteerism among Youth across Immigrant Generations,” which analyzes trends in volunteering among different generations and ethnicities. We are so proud of the community engaged scholarship of Dr. Ishizawa. Learn more about how Nashman supports community engaged faculty here. Want more information on getting your Community Engaged Scholarship course designated click here.
Yesenia’s project focuses on developing and implementing an app, Familia United, which assists Central American immigrant families in Yuma County, Arizona with family tracing and reunification. Recently, Yesenia discussed her Knapp Fellowship with a Community Engaged Scholar. For more information about Yesenia’s Fellowship, please click here to read her previous interview. ...continue reading "Yesenia Grajeda Yepez, 2019-2020 Knapp Fellow, Discusses Familia United"
Dr. Manuel Cuellar, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature, researches Mexican literary and cultural studies with an emphasis on race, gender, and sexuality. Recently, Dr. Cuellar and other scholars published La escenificación de lo mexicano y la interpelación de un público nacional: la Noche Mexicana de 1921 in the journal of Mexican Transnational Cinema and Literature.
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GWServes is our online platform for reporting campus-community partnerships and community engagement interests. It is proving to be a useful tool that fosters networking and collaboration among faculty, students, and community partners. These connections help us engage in mutually beneficial partnerships to influence more positive change in our city.
To encourage faculty to connect via this platform, we are providing an introductory, Faculty Guide to GWServes.
Share with community partners: Johns Hopkins University Press has announced it will provide free access to its journals and books via Project Muse during the COVIDE-19 crisis.
1,400 books and 97 journals will be accessible for free for the remainder of the spring semester, ensuring access for university students completing course work at home
In response to the unprecedented challenges created by the COVID-19 global public health crisis, Johns Hopkins University Press is providing free access to its collection of books and journals currently on Project MUSE, a massive online collection of humanities and social science research.
Join us for GW's Spring 2020 Virtual Symposium! 
The Symposium invites students to share their experiences with community engaged scholarship, disseminate findings, and learn about other campus/community initiatives.
The Virtual Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium will take place Tuesday, April 28th to Thursday, April 30th.
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Promising Futures engages D.C. middle and high school students as ambassadors and peer educators with a focus on everything from health to leadership skills.” To read the full article in GW Today, please click here.
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Dr. Uri Colón-Ramos, Associate Professor of Nutrition & Global Health Department of Global Health (primary) and Department of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, recently won the Nashman Faculty Development Grant. From her background in public affairs, nutrition, and sociological perspectives, Dr. Ramos “employs mixed methods to identify and understand the dietary determinants of underserved, at-risk populations, and to better inform nutrition policies and programs.” ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Uri Colón-Ramos"
Dr. Sara Wilensky, Special Services Faculty member for Undergraduate Education and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education, “leads projects on safety net issues, focusing on the financing and access-to-care barriers faced by vulnerable and underserved populations.” Professor Wilensky has a PhD in Public Policy from GW, but also happens to have a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. From her Public Policy and Law background, Dr. Wilensky incites and advances deeper understandings about the complicated areas within Public Health. ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Sara Wilensky"
